Diamond Eyes album cover reveal

[iceache]

while the inverted owl is cool, there's just something about inverting pictures that screams "look, guyz! I found the invert function in Paint!"

Photoshop thank you very much :p

[jesusinabowlofdirt]

i wonder who'd win in a fight between the faith no more crane and the deftones owl

[Far away]

i like the picture
i mean.. i guess..

Chino said from the start that this album had a night time feel. the owl is perfect... enough said...

+1

[nineteenpeoplesnames]

I still want the album to be all in White.

I'm getting obsessed with it! 

[Vesanic]

Deftones - Diamond Eyes [FULL SONG W/ LYRICS]

[In Flames]

Devildriver's last album "Pray For Villians" featured an owl on the cover. Before the album released Dez posted their reasoning for it:

"I personally have been collecting Owls for some time and the Owl in many different cultures is seen as both the hero and villain. In Ireland an Owl that enters a house must be killed at once, for if it flies away it will takes the luck of the house with it. In Australia, Aborigines believe bats represent the souls of men and Owls the souls of woman. Owls are therefore sacred in their culture because your sister is an Owl and the Owl is your sister.

"For the Aztecs, one of their evil gods wore a screech Owl on his head and in the Celtic culture, the Owl is the sign of the Underworld. So, the OWL was the obvious choice as I wanted to feel as connected to the artwork as I do to the music and also give DevilDriver another icon to work with and even further define us a band!"

I'm sure their reasons for using an owl are much different than that of the deftones, but I found it interesting nonetheless. As for the DE cover, I think it looks very cool, but I actually might like the inverted version more

[theis]

Fucking LOVE the album cover. Looks amazing.

[Subliminal]

Their best album cover, HANDS down and their best album, HANDS down. Holy shit. I love this band so much..

[saltinut1]

wtf is with the white text over the white feathers in the video. who ever designed this video should be shot!

[alio die]

Fucking LOVE the album cover. Looks amazing.

[TheShade1989]

Eh, not too fond of the album cover. I mean, I dont sit here staring at any covers, so it's not a big deal, but to me it's just...well, it's an owl. Matches the music as someone said, but still.

[Dienekes]

Their best album cover, HANDS down and their best album, HANDS down. Holy shit. I love this band so much..

I really dig the cover. As far as best cover ever, nofuckingwayinhell. White Pony is an iconographic image. That cover (wp) may be in the top ten all time.

[Crazylegs]

AWESOME cover. And diamond eyes is becoming one of my alltime favorite deftones songs.

[jv_]

nevermind. fuck off

[White Wrist]

beautiful!

[gui]

that was posted on another topic sby someone else than me BUT i think this is important

   http://www.glowimages.com/index.cfm?/imageDetails_EN&imgid=20922297&extIntCode=0

this means this is a stock photo, which means warner brother didn't actually paid a photographer and a designer, they bought an already made picture from a company who pays artists to get the right for their art. They don't actually have the right for it. All and all, this is a very cheap move from them.

[buddyboy101]

that was posted on another topic sby someone else than me BUT i think this is important

   http://www.glowimages.com/index.cfm?/imageDetails_EN&imgid=20922297&extIntCode=0

this means this is a stock photo, which means warner brother didn't actually paid a photographer and a designer, they bought an already made picture from a company who pays artists to get the right for their art. They don't actually have the right for it. All and all, this is a very cheap move from them.

dude are you serious?!?! who cares whether the picture existed independently of the album?  Whether a totally new work was created or not, the album artwork is obviously meaningful to the band and represents the music and emotion in a different way.  Obviously the band feels the picture is symbolic and meaningful.  And of course they have the rights to the photo, or else they couldn't use it.  I imagine they paid a fee to the original rights-holder for either a limited, exclusive license and or an entire buy-out.

[Jacob]

yeah, I don't really see the problem with it either. I can assure you it's not the first time a stock photo is used for album art. and before you say they lied about that guy working hard on the album art, you must remember there's more to it than just the front cover. something tells me the booklet won't be 6 pages consisting only of that owl picture.

[buddyboy101]

and before you say they lied about that guy working hard on the album art, you must remember there's more to it than just the front cover. something tells me the booklet won't be 6 pages consisting only of that owl picture.

haha exactly.  maddox is mad talented and put a lot into this album.

[E-Money]

I think its a great album cover!  I think people walking around in a record store will stop to check it out.  Cant wait to see the inside!